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I also find the image of companies using Martin Luther King's image to advertise and make money pretty distasteful because it erases his history and message and replaces it with advertising and capitalism
FUCK CAPITALISM
He was killed once he started advocating for socialism. Just makes it more obscene.
Especially given his outspoken anti-capitalist views.
Definitely, yeah. But there's the baseline offensive there always is when Capitalism appropriates its critics and criticisms and turns them into commodities to further profit from, and then there's... well, this.
Like, this is an onion of bad choices. There's layers to this shit.
Like the quote from the rich lady in Disco Elysium: